Missed a few of the speeches from yesterday. Chairman Julian Bond of the NAACP makes a strong case for gay rights at the National Equality March over the weekend. He is power speaker and worth the time. Enjoy.

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Part 2

Gay rights activist Cleve Jones and Joe Solmonese of HRC appeared on Hardball on the eve of the National Equality March to discuss Obama’s commitment to the LGBT community. Watch:

In a profanity filled tirade in NYC this week, Mickey Rourke lamented the use of the f-word… faggot that is. Warning, NSFW at all…

Pathetic human being. Can I have my money back for the Wrestler? I don’t care how much I enjoyed it. And we soon have to suffer him in the new Iron Man movie.

President Jarrett Barrios of GLAAD was swift to respond…

“This is a slur that, regardless of what Mickey Rourke has convinced himself that it means, is often the last word that gay people, and gay youth in particular, hear before they’re bullied, harassed or assaulted.

Rourke is showing himself to be painfully ignorant of how this vulgar, abusive slur feeds a climate of anti-gay hatred, intolerance and violence. Rourke either needs to figure this out, or media needs to stop giving him a platform for promoting these kinds of slurs.”

Rourke also received a lot of negative press last November when he threatened to break a “faggot” writer’s legs.

Wow. Anderson Cooper refereed Lt. Dan Choi and Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), and it wasn’t even close. Good television, and a nice antidote to Rep. Gohmert’s ant-gay statements yesterday. Watch: